Your First Full time IT job? how was your experience?
Bchen22
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When I did entry level help desk
I went into it with absolutely no knowledge at all since most of my IT jobs and internships were slow pace in college doing basic tech support for Microsoft office and password resets.
Luckily I had a really good boss who taught me everything I should as well as a team they weren't the WELL IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR STUFF then GET ANOTHER CAREER kind of people know but it was hard learning all the basics in IT it took me at least 2 years to master the help desk and desktop support it but I managed.
Cat 5 whats that?
Active Directory Huh?
Servers?
What the hell
OH OKAY NOW I GET IT
THANKS
How was your experience in your First IT Job?
I went into it with absolutely no knowledge at all since most of my IT jobs and internships were slow pace in college doing basic tech support for Microsoft office and password resets.
Luckily I had a really good boss who taught me everything I should as well as a team they weren't the WELL IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR STUFF then GET ANOTHER CAREER kind of people know but it was hard learning all the basics in IT it took me at least 2 years to master the help desk and desktop support it but I managed.
Cat 5 whats that?
Active Directory Huh?
Servers?
What the hell
OH OKAY NOW I GET IT
THANKS
How was your experience in your First IT Job?
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rcsoar4fun
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I transferred into a tech job at a company I already worked for. I was a "tech guy" already. Out of about 8 people in the department I would rank my self at about #3 when I started. I quickly realized just because someone had been in a job 10 years didn't mean they knew diddly. The worst part was having a bunch of lousy bosses that had no idea what they were doing or what I *should* be doing, but they were going to tell me anyway. I did discover networking was my calling, so there was that. Kept my head down (mostly), learned what I needed and ejected as soon as reasonably possible.
After 3.5 years of that a buddy asked me if I wanted to go work as an IP tech for a Tier 1 ISP. I had no business taking the job, I was in WAY over my head. However, the boss understood that and hired me because I understood the desktop/server side. They were forming a new team, each person was hired with a distinct skill set and expected to train the rest of the team. I was scared to death, but learned a ton and taught a ton. Ended up being a hugely successful team.